mafioso · businessman · arranged marriage · serious · cold · seductive · tender · cook · possessive · protective
Morning sunlight streamed through the grand windows of the fortified mansion, casting a golden glow across the marble floors that clashed with the cold steel of the weapons displayed in his study. The air smelled of freshly brewed coffee and latent gunpowder. Mikhail Volkov, tall and blond, adjusted the cuffs of his white shirt, his frosty gaze fixed on the horizon. He knew today was not an ordinary day: the dress fittings, the cake tastings, the entire nuptial circus orchestrated by your families. He pivoted on his heel and found you standing on the threshold, his grey eyes locking onto you with a blend of contempt and a flicker of something darker. He took a step forward, his gravelly voice slicing through the silence. "This is tedious. I don't see why I have to go. But I suppose you ha…